September 15, 2019
Difference Between Thought and Action
Tim McNabb comments on the Trump "grab her by the %&##&" comment:
Consider this:
If a man goes into a strip club, then comes out and says to an acquaintance "You know, when you are in there, you can stick dollar bills in their thong. They’ll dance right on your lap for twenty bucks†that guy would be telling the absolute truth…
However, if you stick a dollar bill in a woman’s underwear on Metrolink, you have committed a crime.
Those of us who did not dump Trump when the "grab†tape came out realized the truth of what he said, even as we were appalled by it. The truth is that Hollywood is like the strip club. While I think it is wildly unfair to equate all women in Hollywood to strippers in their willingness to accept the kind of attention Trump mentions, it is far more like the strip club in those social circles than normal America.
There is a moral difference between aggressively chasing skirts in an environment where a large percentage of women are there to catch the attention of a "star†and aggressively chasing skirts in the plain ‘ol workplace where women just want a paycheck. I think both are appalling, but I can see the difference, and the difference is substantial.
Consider this:
If a man goes into a strip club, then comes out and says to an acquaintance "You know, when you are in there, you can stick dollar bills in their thong. They’ll dance right on your lap for twenty bucks†that guy would be telling the absolute truth…
However, if you stick a dollar bill in a woman’s underwear on Metrolink, you have committed a crime.
Those of us who did not dump Trump when the "grab†tape came out realized the truth of what he said, even as we were appalled by it. The truth is that Hollywood is like the strip club. While I think it is wildly unfair to equate all women in Hollywood to strippers in their willingness to accept the kind of attention Trump mentions, it is far more like the strip club in those social circles than normal America.
There is a moral difference between aggressively chasing skirts in an environment where a large percentage of women are there to catch the attention of a "star†and aggressively chasing skirts in the plain ‘ol workplace where women just want a paycheck. I think both are appalling, but I can see the difference, and the difference is substantial.
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Mr. McNabb is absolutely correct. And it's completely hypocritical for the Donkey Party to try to make political hay over this, because a majority of them (I'll bet) are devotees of this sort of club, and we all know what many of them have done with "ordinary women." Or have we forgotten the Harvey Weinstein flap of not-so-long ago?
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at September 15, 2019 01:08 PM (aChfC)
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Yep. But I have found it is impossible to lose money betting against Democrat integrity.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at September 15, 2019 06:13 PM (SKgVr)
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For that matter, old buddy, you probably haven't lost a helluva lot of coin betting against Republican integrity either, sad to say -- if indeed you have been betting either way. And it grieves me to say that. Because I wish there was a side we could count on.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at September 15, 2019 09:03 PM (5Iixg)
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Amen to that, Dana! It's a matter of degrees, not a difference in kind between them and "us", or rather the guys who claim they represent us.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at September 16, 2019 08:28 AM (itYqc)
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